Retire With Me Posts

Okay, there are two pictures below, one is a photograph, and the other is my drawing/painting of the same scene.  I will leave it to you as to which is which. So, I am doing a few things differently this week, painting without drawing. I am learning about different styles…

I never knew why watercolour artists would splatter their works with, what seemed to me, random drops of paint, knocked from their wet brushes. It seems very odd to me, at least at first, to work on preparing a painting, however simple, then splatter some additional spots on it after.…

Okay, it has been a tough slog this week, I have been practicing drawing and I am not very good at it. I have a tough time drawing a straight line and circles, which pretty well covers everything. This is what one of my hero mentors has to say about…

I am learning about colour blending/mixing and the different ways of applying colour to a watercolour painting.  Both of this week’s offerings are wet on wet paintings on simple creations.  There is no drawing on the feather and minimal ink drawing on the flowers.  The flowers were drawn in about…

Cool my friends, I am once again delighted to have had another fun filled week learning new tricks.  This week, I was learning to scribble and wash with colour.  So what is that?  How fast can you draw something, include a few details and not lift your pen off the…